insular, adj.
narrowly restricted in outlook or scope
<adj.all>
insular parochial
sample sentences
"little sympathy with parochial mentality""insular attitudes toward foreigners"
semantic pointers
similar to
suggestive of the isolated life of an island
<adj.all>
insular
sample sentences
"an exceedingly insular manso deeply private as to seem inaccessible to the scrutiny of a novelist"- Leonard Michaels
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
semantic pointers
similar to
relating to or characteristic of or situated on an island
<adj.pert>
insular
sample sentences
"insular territories""Hawaii's insular culture"